Scantron Testing and Science Fair This Week

Here's a photo of our class at the opening of our
Black History and Civil Rights Museum on April 20th.

Our class will be taking reading and math Scantron tests on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons this week.  Please remind your child of the importance of these tests.  We hope to see everyone improve!  In addition, please come to our 4th-5th grade Science Fair this Friday morning.  We look forward to seeing you there!  Here's what else we will be doing the week of 4-30-12:

In Word Work, students will continue Word Wisdom Unit 5: Measurement. We will work on Part 3 this week which focuses on Reference Skills.

In literature study we will continue reading the poetry novel Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech. We will read and write about similes, metaphors, consonance, dissonance, alliteration, and more. We will discuss poems by William Carlos Williams and other well known poets.

In writing workshop, students will be working on writing their own poems using the poetic devices we are learning about in literature study. They will also be writing poems based in the same style as some of the famous poems we’ve been reading.

This week in math, students will continue to divide numbers by a 1-digit divisor. They will see whole number quotients, quotients with remainders, and quotients with a zero in them. We will review how to determine factors and how to find the prime factorization of a number. Students will use pictures and equations to help them represent remainders in a problem.

Students will present their science fair projects in class this week in science. The 4th-5th Grade Science Fair will be on Friday at 9:15 am.